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India's jobless growth is not a myth -Mahesh Vyas

-Livemint.com If we do not recognize the problem on hand, we will not have any reason to try and find solutions India’s jobless growth is a myth, stated R. Gopalan and M.C. Singhi in an opinion piece in Mint on 19 December. They used data published by the Labour Bureau from their employment-unemployment surveys between 2009-10 and 2015-16. These were the first and last surveys conducted by the Labour Bureau on the...

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'Look into financial aid scheme for orphans' -Soibam Rocky Singh

-The Hindu High Court asks Delhi government New Delhi: The Delhi High Court has asked the city government and civic bodies to see if it is feasible to create a financial assistance scheme for marginalised sections of society, such as Transgenders or orphans, in lines with the existing old age pension scheme. Delhi already has an old age financial assistance scheme and a disability pension scheme named ‘Financial Assistance to Persons with Special...

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Coalition of civil society organisations oppose the Transgender Persons Bill 2016. But why?

-Press release by All India Transgender and Intersex Collective The Constitution of India, framed under the guidance of Dr. BR Ambedkar, was built on the framework of equality, justice, liberty and secularism. It is only due to these ideals that communities of people forced into society's margins have won some legal rights and also gathered the courage to fight against social injustice. The fight still continues, especially because Transgender persons, dalits,...

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Civil society activists oppose the enactment of the Transgender Bill in it current form

-National Alliance of People's Movements (NAPM) 16th Dec, 2017: National Alliance of People’s Movements is deeply concerned that the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill, 2016, to which there is massive resistance across the country from the Transgender, intersex, genderqueer people, is being tabled in the Winter Session of the Parliament. The Bill in its current form is an unfortunately regressive step back from the landmark judgemnt of the Supreme Court...

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Transgender protest at bill definition

-The Telegraph New Delhi: Hundreds of Transgender people gathered here on Sunday to criticise the NDA government's proposed definition of their gender as too similar to the Hindu concept of Ardhanarishwara in its over-reliance on physical attributes. They demanded that self-declaration and not medical screening be the accepted mode of gender identification. The Transgender community sees itself as people whose gender identity (self-identification as man or woman or neither or both) runs counter...

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